Riding the subway is a rite of passage for those living in and visiting New York City.
Surely, if you spent 16 seasons playing football in the Big Apple, you would have hopped on the train at least a handful of times.
Not Eli Manning.
The former Giants quarterback shared a photo of himself on X at an underground station this week with the caption, “First time riding the subway!”
Fans and New Yorkers alike were, understandably, blown away.
“Dude has lived in NYC area for 20 years and it’s the first time ever riding on the subway? Thats absurd,” Jake Asman wrote on the platform.
“Best evidence the Giants are a New Jersey team,” Politico’s Jeff Coltin joked.
“Congestion pricing is working. This middle aged man from New Jersey is riding public transit,” an X user named Matt Janiga wrote.
“I forgot how rich people have it sometimes,” @JetsMuse wrote.
The social media version of Manning can be a bit of a troll, as he proved this week with a back-and-forth with Tom Brady, so it’s unclear if it was truly the two-time Super Bowl champion’s first time on the subway.
On Monday, Brady shared a photo holding a fish while basking in the sunlight — Manning seized on the opportunity, sharing a side-by-side shot of his much larger catch in comparison on Instagram with the caption, “Cute Minnow, Tom!”
“You use a helmet to catch that one too?” Brady quipped, in a callback to the Patriots-Giants Super Bowl clash at the end of the 2007 season.
